So far it's hard to pay random people on the internet. For instance if I want to pay you USD1, it'll cost me more than USD1 in time and money to do so.
Anyway it's all about branding and convenience. You can make your own coffee easily, but people still give a lot of money to Starbucks.
And Coca Cola's cola isn't that fantastic, but supermarkets will still stock Coca Cola in addition to their own brands.
Doctorow gives out free copies and by doing so he raises his brand awareness.
You can be a fantastic writer, it doesn't count for much if nobody gives you shelf space.
Whether or not there's copyright, it'll still be the same - a few would be rich, a larger bunch will "get by", and the rest will lose money.
If the banking world wasn't so primitive and screwed up it'll be easier to pay people. Then they make stuff, and somehow a copy gets to you (pirate bay or wherever), you like it enough, you send them some money.
I find it quite amazing that it's so hard to just send someone money.
Yes I know there's the "money laundering" problem, but can't they fix that with source auth, logging and timestamps?
Actually I'm glad that the malware people are focusing their attention on Windows.
Imagine what the malware people would be able to do with stuff like perl. Polymorphic? No problem, heck it might even be able to use search engines to look for "updates" and check to see if the update code runs OK.
Perl is installed by default on popular Linux distros, and some BSD - so it can be cross platform.
If you had millions of the typical windows users using Ubuntu, there'll be a lot more zombies and they'd be really capable.
A fair number of windows users have proven that they will enter a password in an email to decrypt an attached encrypted zipfile and then run the malware in it...
So guess how hard it will be to get them to run a perl script as root - either via sudo or other means.
Linux, OSX etc is not significantly safer than Windows from a tech security POV.
BUT there is no good alternative that's: 1) Cheap 2) Fast 3) Available on most platforms
I find it quite amazing actually that the CPU manufacturers add all those features, and yet after so many years there is still no good standard way to "get time", despite lots of programs needing to do it.
"The sad thing is that people like you, who don't like status quo but refuse to vote to change it,"
Even worse. A lot of them think their votes won't help, but actually believe their guns and bullets will.
Somehow they can believe there's no acceptable candidate to vote for AND also believe that if they start a revolution an acceptable leader will magically show up (rather than a dictator).
"Selling is legal, and voting is legal. So why isn't selling voting legal?"
Just legalize and regulate it, and there should be no problems about people selling their vote. Many voters already vote for candidates just because candidates promise to give the voters some of the voters own money - how much more abusive is that?;).
I bet it's harder to scale to 100k dual core servers when you have to account for software licensing, where some of the licenses are per core, some are per core+MHz, some need a hardware dongle, some are per user, some are per concurrent user, some are per employee, some per server and so on.
And many of these are per year or some other time duration, so you need to renew them accordingly.
Oracle used to have pretty "interesting" licenses in the 1990s. I wonder how the licenses are now.
By your reasoning why should you have a Secretary of Treasury? Or heads for any of these departments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Executive_Departments
The US govt does not appear to have a "Secretary of Science and Tech" sort of position.
Obama's bunch appears to think there's a gap somewhere.
They should hopefully already have advisors for tech stuff. So I'm thinking that it would be more of a symbolic role that shows that they are saying "Tech is important enough for that".
If you think a National CTO is going to be personally deciding the technological needs of every federal agency, either you're the dolt or the dolts are the National CTO and the people who appointed him.
Which brings us back to the topic - is Bill Joy suitable?
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There was also a guy who flew an RC helicopter to deliver the wedding ring. Was kind of stressful for him since it was at night, and in open air.
To me much of what we do can be seen as a waste of time, posting on slashdot, writing code, even making money.
After all once you are dead what good are your money making skills?
What adds value is people.
And that is more so if you believe there is an afterlife, that at least some people do get to live forever. If that is true then logically people matter more.
Imagine in your afterlife you had 10 billion dollars to your name but no friends. Have a nice _eternity_ counting your money by yourself.
Same for playing the piano. If you're an elite asshole concert pianist, are you really better off compared to some crappy keyboardist who jams with a bunch of friends?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Make fun of it all you want. But if you are grown up enough, you would recognize that there is some wisdom to those words.
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That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the main problem.
The main problem with real life, is it appears you can't restore from a save game and the respawning lag really sucks.
Many of the manuals seem to hint that by the time you respawn the game is practically over.
If the machine is your personal desktop machine, ~/ could be more damaging since that's the unique data is. The rest of the directories can be replaced by a reinstall. If you did / on your personal desktop you'd probably notice before it got to your ~/;).
If the machine is a shared machine or server, then yes / is more damaging.
BTW we've had silly people who think that the use of ! is a good idea, and they used it production servers, and one day stuff happened;).
"So why is it that OO geeks seem to love piling layers upon layers?"
Do the Python and Ruby bunch pile on layers and layers?
I think the Java bunch tend to do that more.
It may be because Java is too "stiff", so you need to have a lot more layers to get it to flex;).
I suspect many Java programs are actually half baked Lisp interpreters in disguise. The Lisp code being the huge XML configuration files.
You should suspect something is up when a Java app's XML config files are the size of a typical Perl/Python/Ruby program that does a similar thing;).
Alternately it could be the Java programmers don't mind typing a lot - since Java is a verbose language it'll tend to attract more coders who like that sort of thing.
I know Python programmers aren't that fond of typing - they even skip the braces;).
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How much would it cost to make a portable wireless low latency screen+keyboard+mouse?
So most of the compute power is at a desktop...
60fps * 1680 * 1050 * 24 bit is 300MByte/sec though, and it'll be tricky to keep the latency low.
How do you pay?
So far it's hard to pay random people on the internet. For instance if I want to pay you USD1, it'll cost me more than USD1 in time and money to do so.
Anyway it's all about branding and convenience. You can make your own coffee easily, but people still give a lot of money to Starbucks.
And Coca Cola's cola isn't that fantastic, but supermarkets will still stock Coca Cola in addition to their own brands.
Doctorow gives out free copies and by doing so he raises his brand awareness.
You can be a fantastic writer, it doesn't count for much if nobody gives you shelf space.
Whether or not there's copyright, it'll still be the same - a few would be rich, a larger bunch will "get by", and the rest will lose money.
If the banking world wasn't so primitive and screwed up it'll be easier to pay people. Then they make stuff, and somehow a copy gets to you (pirate bay or wherever), you like it enough, you send them some money.
I find it quite amazing that it's so hard to just send someone money.
Yes I know there's the "money laundering" problem, but can't they fix that with source auth, logging and timestamps?
Actually I'm glad that the malware people are focusing their attention on Windows.
Imagine what the malware people would be able to do with stuff like perl. Polymorphic? No problem, heck it might even be able to use search engines to look for "updates" and check to see if the update code runs OK.
Perl is installed by default on popular Linux distros, and some BSD - so it can be cross platform.
If you had millions of the typical windows users using Ubuntu, there'll be a lot more zombies and they'd be really capable.
A fair number of windows users have proven that they will enter a password in an email to decrypt an attached encrypted zipfile and then run the malware in it...
So guess how hard it will be to get them to run a perl script as root - either via sudo or other means.
Linux, OSX etc is not significantly safer than Windows from a tech security POV.
That's doable with emulation but you will take a performance hit. I don't think there's a good way to do it without a lot of emulation.
I don't see a practical reason for cross platform "live" moves.
Switching within a platform class is likely to be far far more useful.
With cross architecture switching, it's going to be a lot harder to use the strengths of the CPUs.
Say you're on x86 and using SSE, then you switch to SPARC, what are you going to do then?
Or you're on UltraSPARC T2 and using the eight encryption engines, then you switch to x86, what do you do then?
Yes you're not supposed to use TSC.
BUT there is no good alternative that's:
1) Cheap
2) Fast
3) Available on most platforms
I find it quite amazing actually that the CPU manufacturers add all those features, and yet after so many years there is still no good standard way to "get time", despite lots of programs needing to do it.
Maybe you should get the SNP to try a few seats in the South ;).
If they really have done a better job in Scotland, a fair number of people might actually vote for them in England.
Maybe enough at least to give the other parties a wake up call...
"The sad thing is that people like you, who don't like status quo but refuse to vote to change it,"
Even worse. A lot of them think their votes won't help, but actually believe their guns and bullets will.
Somehow they can believe there's no acceptable candidate to vote for AND also believe that if they start a revolution an acceptable leader will magically show up (rather than a dictator).
They're dangerous fools and idiots.
Actually quite a number of English people go to foreign countries where hardly anyone speaks their language, find jobs, stay for months or even years.
;).
They earn "expat" pay though
"I guess we shouldn't knock bacteria, after all it's the only culture that some people have in this country."
:).
I thought you all had Vegemite too
"Selling is legal, and voting is legal. So why isn't selling voting legal?"
;).
Just legalize and regulate it, and there should be no problems about people selling their vote. Many voters already vote for candidates just because candidates promise to give the voters some of the voters own money - how much more abusive is that?
BTW adultery is illegal in some states.
The Government will be collecting taxes from them and protecting them (somewhat).
:)
So the government will be their pimp.
I bet it's harder to scale to 100k dual core servers when you have to account for software licensing, where some of the licenses are per core, some are per core+MHz, some need a hardware dongle, some are per user, some are per concurrent user, some are per employee, some per server and so on.
And many of these are per year or some other time duration, so you need to renew them accordingly.
Oracle used to have pretty "interesting" licenses in the 1990s. I wonder how the licenses are now.
By your reasoning why should you have a Secretary of Treasury? Or heads for any of these departments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Executive_Departments
The US govt does not appear to have a "Secretary of Science and Tech" sort of position.
Obama's bunch appears to think there's a gap somewhere.
They should hopefully already have advisors for tech stuff. So I'm thinking that it would be more of a symbolic role that shows that they are saying "Tech is important enough for that".
If you think a National CTO is going to be personally deciding the technological needs of every federal agency, either you're the dolt or the dolts are the National CTO and the people who appointed him.
Which brings us back to the topic - is Bill Joy suitable?
There was also a guy who flew an RC helicopter to deliver the wedding ring. Was kind of stressful for him since it was at night, and in open air.
To me much of what we do can be seen as a waste of time, posting on slashdot, writing code, even making money.
After all once you are dead what good are your money making skills?
What adds value is people.
And that is more so if you believe there is an afterlife, that at least some people do get to live forever. If that is true then logically people matter more.
Imagine in your afterlife you had 10 billion dollars to your name but no friends. Have a nice _eternity_ counting your money by yourself.
Same for playing the piano. If you're an elite asshole concert pianist, are you really better off compared to some crappy keyboardist who jams with a bunch of friends?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Make fun of it all you want. But if you are grown up enough, you would recognize that there is some wisdom to those words.
That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the main problem.
The main problem with real life, is it appears you can't restore from a save game and the respawning lag really sucks.
Many of the manuals seem to hint that by the time you respawn the game is practically over.
I prefer just doing it in one go:
du -k | sort -nr | more
I use man -k.
But that's not the point.
The point is "man" is like a dictionary. Not a "Cool Unix Tricks for Dummies" guide.
Hardly anyone reads through all the manpages and then ponders on them to find cool combinations to use it.
That's why this topic was promising. Unfortunately so far I'm halfway down and it's been somewhat disappointing.
You might find perl's -n switch useful as well.
... }' loop around program
-n assume 'while (<>) {
If it's Desktop Linux for Aunt May, it's the same thing.
Same if you have unsaved work in your GUI apps. If you know a way around that problem, I'd be very interested.
It could end up very inconvenient.
It's safer to read what the command is before you execute it.
Using ! completion is a very bad idea. It is a badly designed user interface.
You might be sleepy/hungover/drunk/careless/unlucky and be on a different machine from what you expect.
It certainly doesn't save time to do have to do history first to check then use !
So you might as well do the CTRL-R thing.
If you are doing something repetitive often enough, you write scripts to do it.
It depends.
;).
;).
If the machine is your personal desktop machine, ~/ could be more damaging since that's the unique data is. The rest of the directories can be replaced by a reinstall. If you did / on your personal desktop you'd probably notice before it got to your ~/
If the machine is a shared machine or server, then yes / is more damaging.
BTW we've had silly people who think that the use of ! is a good idea, and they used it production servers, and one day stuff happened
I wonder if anyone has had problems with guiding people to uninstallin stuff like Asterisk over the phone ;).
/etc/asterisk
;).
e.g.
A: "Type rm -rf
B: "OK"
A: "Next..."
B: "Wait it's not done yet"
A: "?"
A: "!"
Seems like people should be more careful about product directory names
Don't call your directories stuff like "star" or "slashdot" if you ever might need to get people to remove them over the phone.
So if she moved to DC, she'd have lowered the average of both places? :)
;).
Maybe DC is just more discreet.
I'm not a US citizen, but the thought of Palin just a heart attack away from having the nuclear football was a bit worrying.
The fact that Bush managed to get reelected didn't help.
Paris Hilton for president would probably be much better than Sarah Palin.
"So why is it that OO geeks seem to love piling layers upon layers?"
;).
;).
;).
Do the Python and Ruby bunch pile on layers and layers?
I think the Java bunch tend to do that more.
It may be because Java is too "stiff", so you need to have a lot more layers to get it to flex
I suspect many Java programs are actually half baked Lisp interpreters in disguise. The Lisp code being the huge XML configuration files.
You should suspect something is up when a Java app's XML config files are the size of a typical Perl/Python/Ruby program that does a similar thing
Alternately it could be the Java programmers don't mind typing a lot - since Java is a verbose language it'll tend to attract more coders who like that sort of thing.
I know Python programmers aren't that fond of typing - they even skip the braces